The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-04-14

fall.
Oak Ridge Institute Commencement,
Nav Both and 31st. This school is more
prosperous than ever, despite the hard
times.
Natural gas has been discovered in
Cincinnati within two miles Of the post
Office. One well sunk yields 10, 900 cubic
feet a day.
Five negroes charged with murder
were taken from the Jail in Yorkville, S.
c., on the 9TH inst, and hung by a party
of lynchers.
Steel rails, telegraph wires and i'm
proved labor saving machinery are revo-
lutionizing the and industries
of the world.
1t is good to be rich, but it is better
to know how to use riches, to be master
of your money rather than let your
money be master of you.
The Tobacco Plant learns that the
Orange county farmers will devote less
acreage to tobacco and less money to the
purchase of commercial fertilizers.
1t is rumored in Washington, and
positively stated by some who pretend to
know. that the President will call an eX-
ira session of Congress October the LIST.
There was a burst of petroleum from
the earth recently near the town of Baker,
in Russia, flowing in a great stream and
forming a great lake of pure petroleum.
There was a convention of members
of different church denominations in Chi
cago last week, the object of which was
to inaugurate a movement to suppress Sc
cret societies.
--Goldsboro is to have a new furniture
factory. Two acres of land have been
purchased for the site on the west side of
the Wilmington and Weldon railroad and
south side of the Midland road.
The crops of Texas are suffering very
much from a continued drought which
prevails through out the State. The great
grazing area suffers the most, there hay
ing little or no rain for a year.
John G. SAKE, the well known poet
and wit, died last week at the residence
of his son in Albany, N. Y. For seven
years he has been in retirement, his health
being shattered, and his reason impaired
by domestic Affections.
The Office of the PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER is in the jewelry store of J. w. Cole,
Is west Hargett street, next door to
Williamson & Upchurch-one block from
the capitol. We will be glad to welcome
our friends at all times.
-Messrs. Louis, Dagger & Co., solicit
tors of patents, Washington, D. c., wrote
us that there were issued to citizens of
Southern States twenty-eight patents
bearing date of April 5, 1887, among
them one to I. n. Helmes, Mathews, n.
c., on a combined washing and wringing
machine.
The Gar of Russia has been notified
by the Nihilists that he has been con-
demned to death, and that he will surely
be killed, and the Gear believes it. If
there is a crowned head in the world who
is paying dearly for the imaginary or real
honor of wearing a crown, it is the poor,
miserable, Nihilist-hunted and haunted
Gar. 1
The Western Road and our mountait
friends are making large preparations fdr
increased summer travel and patronage.
That's right. Let our Eastern people gP
up and see this "goodly land and let thf
denizens of our mountains go down bA
the deep blue sea, and thus learn more Of
each other and more of the great inner
itance of healthful climate, and beautiful
land which God hath given us.
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, of s. c., died
after a lingering illness On the 9th inst.
He was twice a member of the legislature
of his State, for two years master of the
State Grange, for fourteen years a mem
Der of the Executive Committee of the
National Grange. He was a member Of
the 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th and 49th Con-
crosses. In all his responsible positions,
he was fully alive to the great agricul-
tural interests of his country A good
man has fallen.